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Cookies, Cakes, and Doughnuts: Pour
Pour the batter into a well-buttered pan, and bake fifty minutes. This a 6 a, Dover Egg-beater: b, Grater: c. Omelet Pan. makes one small loaf. This cake may be put away to be used as a pudding when convenient. Steam it an hour, and serve with a wine sauce. It is almost as good as a plum pudding.
Maple-Sugar Gingerbread. 1 egg, 1 cupful thick maple sirup, 2 cupfuls flour, cupful sour milk, cupful butter, teaspoonful ginger, teaspoonful soda, teaspoonful salt, Rind and juice lemon.
Beat the butter to a cream, and add the sirup and flavoring. Dissolve the soda in 1 tablespoonful cold water and stir into the sour milk. Add this and the egg well beaten to the other ingredients, then the flour. Beat well; pour into a buttered pan. This quantity will make one small loaf or a thin sheet. If baked in a loaf, leave in oven fifty minutes; if in a sheet, twenty-five minutes. - MISS PARLOA.
Holiday Cake. 1 cupful butter, 1 cupful sugar, 1 cupful molasses, ½ teaspoonful salt, 1 teaspoonful mixed spices, 1 egg, 1 cupful sour milk, 1 teaspoonful soda, Flour, 1 cupful raisins and currants, Small quantity citron.
Mix together the butter, sugar, molasses, salt, spices, and egg; beat well, then add the sour milk with the soda stirred in, and flour enough to make quite thick; add the raisins, currants, and citron. This makes two medium loaves, and will keep for weeks.
Marble Layer Cake. cake Runkel's Chocolate, 1 teaspoonful baking soda, cupful warm water, 2 cupfuls maple sugar, 2 eggs, cupful butter, 1 cupful sour milk, 2½ cupfuls flour.
Melt the chocolate over hot water, dissolve the soda in the warm water; beat the butter to a cream. Add the eggs beaten without separating, and beat in gradually the sugar-beat for at least ten minutes. Pour the soda and water in the sour milk; add this with the melted chocolate to the egg mixture; now stir in the flour. Beat and bake in three layers. When cold, put together with maple or caramel filling.